San Francisco Scene: August 7-14, 2015

From the Bay Improviser:

Friday, August 7

Fri 8/07 6:30 PM de Young Museum [50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr, San Francisco, CA 94118]
Friday Nights at the De Young: Lisa Mezzacappa
Composer and bassist Lisa Mezzacappa presents a preview of her new music and film work “Glorious Ravage” as part of the free Friday Nights at the de Young series. Mezzacappa leads an ensemble of eight musicians plus video projection, in a series of site-specific performances in and around the museum’s Wilsey Court.
With: Fay Victor – Tim Perkis – Darren Johnston – Kyle Bruckmann – Cory Wright – Jordan Glenn – John Finkbeiner – Lisa Mezzacappa
Projection by Konrad Steiner and Alfonso Alvarez
http://www.gloriousravage.com

Fri 8/07 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Dana Lyn & Kyle Sanna: A “Through the Looking Glass” Approach to Irish Music
Brooklyn-based fiddler/violinist Dana Lyn and guitarist Kyle Sanna bring their inventive arrangements and nuanced interpretations of traditional Irish music to the Center for New Music. Hailed as “ground-breaking” by noted folklorist and NEA Award-recipient Mick Moloney and “bursting with creativity” by renowned fiddler Kevin Burke, Lyn and Sanna connect the dots between their experience as composers and improvisers and their deep admiration for traditional music. This concert will celebrate the release of their second album, “The Great Arc”.

Fri 8/07 8:00 PM Hemlock Tavern [1131 Polk Street SF]
PERFECT LOSS / TIME SPENT DRIVING / ROMAN CITIES

Fri 8/07 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Diego Villasenor–Videcoic One
Musicians:
Diego VIllasenor, Voice, Samples & “Composition”
Danishta Rivero, Voice
Andrew Jamieson, Piano
Jakob Pek, Guitar
Nava Dunkelman, Percussion
Jeanie-Aprille Tang, Electronics
Aaron Oppenheim, ElectronicsDiego Villasenor–Videcoic One
Musicians:
Diego VIllasenor, Voice, Samples & “Composition”
Danishta Rivero, Voice
Andrew Jamieson, Piano
Jakob Pek, Guitar
Nava Dunkelman, Percussion
Jeanie-Aprille Tang, Electronics
Aaron Oppenheim, Electronics

Saturday, August 8

Sat 8/08 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Alma Sangre w/ Plastic Persons
Alma Sangre, from Boyle Heights in LA, will be performing their hybrid of Spanish rhythm and dance. This is their first performance in San Francisco. Plastic Persons will be supporting as a guitar/sax duo.

Sat 8/08 8:00 PM Berkeley Arts [2133 University Avenue Berkeley]
Santomieri-Farhadian Duo CD Release Concert for RedBlue, with Gusty Winds May Exist

Sunday, August 9

Sun 8/09 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [Outsound Presents @ Musicians Union Hall 116 Ninth St @ Mission SF 94103]
7:30pm Brett Carson – solo piano and spoken word
8:30pm Noertker’s Moxie
Annelise Zamula – alto sax, flute
Eli Wallace – piano
Bill Noertker – contrabass
Jordan Glenn – drums

Tuesday, August 11
Tue 8/11 7:30 PM Omni Oakland Commons [4799 Shattuck Ave Oakland]
Active Music Series:
Greg Gorlen (harsh noise, cassette loops, pure data, photocopiers, and raw aesthetics.)
Bad Jazz (Bryan Day – invented instruments; Tania Chen – toys, lo-fi electronics, piano; Justin Clifford Rhody – trumpet; Alex Cohen – electric guitar)
Ben Goldberg/Sheldon Brown/Vijay Anderson (advanced tradition)

Wednesday, August 12

Wed 8/12 7:45 AM Second Act [1727 Haight St. SF]
Nate Young
A Michigan carpenter specializing in pole barn framing, Young is also a musician and confirmed shapeshifter. As when coming out to see an orca in a tank far too small to contain it, don’t be late and expect to get wet and eaten. https://soundcloud.com/nate-young
Three Legged Race
Hair Police was a riot and his soundtrack for Takeshi Murata bugged out the inner eye, but Three Legged Race, solo project of Kentucky’s Robert Beatty, is something perfectly spare as is best for sounds crafted to span solipsistic chasms. Should these long sounds find you, step off to follow. http://www.ubu.com/film/murata_silver.html
Group Rhoda
Here is an interior music not for escape but for deeper dwelling, an infinite nestling that lowers you further to a darker ever more-distant surety, not comfort or ease but fearlessness. And there’s voice in her song, that clearest closeness, word and open thought. http://grouprhoda.com/

Thursday, August 13

Thu 8/13 8:00 PM 509 Cultural Center [509 Ellis Street SF]
8pm: neem (Gabby Fluke-Mogul, Kelley Kipperman
neem is what we create together. a queer improvisational duo focusing on issues of identity, bodies,
gender, sexuality, feminism, eroticism, & more within the music continuum…
9pm Zachary Mariano – trombone/interactive electronics

Friday, August 14

Fri 8/14 7:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Scott Worthington
Scott Worthington presents new and recent works for double bass and electronics on his CD release tour of the west coast.